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| | Brazil - Brazzil Mag - How Diadema, Brazil, Cut Murder 68% |
 | | The experience of the city of Diadema, located 17 kilometers from downtown São Paulo, in reducing its indices of crime will be presented at the 11th Congress of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Program, which will be held from April 18 to 25 in Bangkok, Thailand. |
 | | According to the Diadema municipal press office, the city, which has 383 thousand inhabitants, registered 102.82 homicides for every 100 thousand inhabitants in 1999, that is, one murder per day. |
 | | Diadema was, for example, the first city to implant the disarmament program with the participation of civil society organizations. |
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